Hornborg Global Magic

Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-56787-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 201 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability

Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hornborg, Alf

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Ecology of Things: Artifacts as Embodied Relations 2. Land, Energy, and Value in the Technocene 3. The Magic of Money 4. Empires, World-Systems, and Expanding Markets 5. Money as Fictive Energy: Unraveling the Relation between Economics and Physics 6. Agency, Ontology, and Global Magic 7. The Political Ecology of Technological Utopianism 8. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization and Increase Resilience 9. Conclusions: Money, Technology, and Magic

Über Autor(innen)

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.